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Blige wins Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album for Growing Pains.
It was years of painfulness to get to this point. But once you’ve been going through so much self-hatred and stuff for so long, you get to that point and you say, “Gosh, am I good enough?” And then something says — and this is the growth — yes, you are. And that’s why I named the album Growing Pains because it was that moment that I realized, you know what, it’s going to take a lot more growing and a lot more pain to sustain this breakthrough.
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Franklin and Blige wins the Grammy for Best Gospel Performance for Never Gonna Break My Faith.
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Chaka Khan and Blige wins the Grammy for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for Disrespectful.
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Blige wins the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song for Be Without You, and Best R&B Album for The Breakthrough.
This is the first time I’ve ever been up here to receive anything and I thank you so much.
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Blige wins the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for He Think I Don’t Know.
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Blige and Method Man wins the Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need To Get By.